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No one here has done so yet, but I've gotten a reply on Twitter saying that Egypt is out in the groups. I'm not entirely having that. Its tougher now, but Egypt aren't here solely down to Mohamed Salah.

The Egyptian league has a lot of talent that could show up and make an impression as well as players in more fringe European leagues. Gomaa and Trezeguet are 2 examples of this.

I think with the group they are in, they can still go through but still, I am gutted for Salah as its one of his dreams to play in the World Cup I'd bet.

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I know its totally irrelevant but I find it interesting to note that Salah will barely reach the World Cup in the same manner Suarez barely reached the World Cup with Uruguay in 2014... both played for Liverpool being the star and both fought for a major honour that season.

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So heres the thing with a dislocated shoulder; If its the first time hes done it you usually do muscle and ligament damage on its way out. That takes quite awhile to heal and in most cases it doesnt properly. You can spend years building up strength to better hold it in but once the ligaments are gone they're gone and the only proper fix is surgery.

The rates are something like If you dislocated it once you have a 50% chance to do it again and it keeps going up from there, I want to say it was after the first half to a dozen times It no longer hurt it was just awkward to try and put it back in and I could keep playing through it.

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He will be playing at the world cup because now the prognosis is three to four weeks with Egypt's first game in Russia coming in just 16 days. I think by then the pain will have subsided but as Viva la FCB said this is just a temporary stop-gap which will probably require surgery for complete healing. It would be risky to put him out on the pitch but I don't think anyone wants to really go out and legitimately hurt another player so he might actually be fine after it all.